On 11/18/2009 11:19 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: > Is there any legal precident regarding the GPL and SaaS delivery models?
What Josh said. As a counter-example, Skype was trying to get the GPL invalidated in a German court all the while running their operations on it, which is legal (I asked the FSF about it at the time - note, expect 2 month latency for such responses). Curiously, if Skype had won they would have been hip-deep in copyright violation. It's important to remember the GPL is what makes the copying legal - without the GPL copying the source code is illegal because it's copyrighted, so copying can only be done legally by accepting the license. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: [email protected] VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle
